ARTIST STATEMENT

My intense interest in history provides me with both inspiration and subject matter for my paintings. In studying the past, I find that certain individuals, events, or products of a culture persist in the mind and demand further inspection. I address these demands with an exhaustive study of historical and visual sources to ensure accuracy in both minor details and general atmosphere; this research also introduces me to subsidiary motifs that may complement my central theme. These images from the past carry with them particular environmental moods engendered by their historical contexts which I combine with my personal perceptions and stylistic idiosyncrasies to create and arrange the elements that go into each work. The finished piece should provide a realistic but stylized visual recreation from the past that also carries with it a wider comment on the qualities of human existence.

SELECTED SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS
2006      Featured Speaker and exhibiting artist, The Clio Society, Department of
              History, University of Arizona
              "Out of Chaos”, Group Show, Liz Hernandez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
              “For the Birds”, Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson

2005      Contributing Artist, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Charity Auction,
              Painted Violin
              Lost Histories, Found Memories”, Liz Hernandez Gallery

2004      One Man Show, Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
              Flight of Fancy, Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, Arizona

2003      This Place Exhibition, A.P. Tell Gallery, Grand Canyon University

2001      Inside/Outside Exhibition, Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix,
              Arizona
              Oil Painters of America National Exhibition, San Antonio Texas

1995      Oil Painters of America, Southwest Regional Show, Scottsdale, Arizona
              Salmagundi Club 18th Annual Art Exhibition, New York, N.Y.

1994      Two-man show, Tucson Jewish Community Center

1992      One-man show, University of Arizona, Hall of Fame Gallery, Tucson

1990      Mountain Oyster Club Western Art Invitational, Tucson
              Fine Arts for Fine Causes, Tucson Museum of Art

1989      National Audubon Society annual meeting exhibition, Tucson
               Fine Arts for Fine Causes, Tucson Museum of Art

1987      One-man show, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson

1986      Best of Show, Dinnerware Gallery Annual Six State Invitational, Tucson

1984      Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art

ARTICLES AND FEATURES
Manhattan Arts, Featured Profile, Summer, 1995
Arizona Illustrated, Artist Spotlight, Michael Boyle, KUAT, Channel 6, 1988
Arizona Daily Star, Right Man for the Quake of 365, Ed Severson, May 12, 1988
Arizona Illustrated, Artist Spotlight, Michael Boyle, KUAT, Channel 6, 1986
Arizona Daily Star, Biennial: The Funky, the Horrid and the Wonderful, Robert
      Cauthorn, October 28, 1984

PUBLICATIONS
A Roman Villa (and late Roman Cemetery), David Soren Líerma Di
      Bretschneider, 1999
The Best of Oil Painting, Rockport Publishing, 1996
Death to Dust, Ken Iserson, M.D., Galen Press, 1994
The Poles and Saxons of Napoleonic Wars, G. Nafziger, The Emperorís
      Press, 1991
I Terrmoti Prima del Mille In Italia E Nell 'Area Mediterranea, E. Guidoboni,
     SGA Bolgna
Carthage, Dr. D. Soren, A. Khader and H. Slim, Simon and Schuster, 1990
Kourion-The search for a Lost Roman City, Dr. D. Soren and J. James,
       Doubleday, 1988
National Geographic, The Day the World Ended at Kourion, July, 1988
Carthage-Mirage of Antiquity, Dr. David Soren, University of Arizona, 1987
McIntosh and Weatherford-Creek Indian Leaders, B. Griffiths, University of
     Alabama Press, 1986